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Valuable research 👇 showing people in Scotland are ahead of the political debate on inequality and tax. They can see too much wealth sitting in too few hands while children live in poverty and public services struggle. People know that’s not right. #TaxJusticeScotland

Wellbeing Economy Alliance Scotland@weallscotland.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢New report out today 📢 People in Scotland are clear: 83% say the wealth gap is too big 90% think inequality is more harmful than good 85% support higher taxes on the wealthy over reducing them Public opinion is NOT the barrier to reform. #TaxJustice #Scotland

NEW: We often hear that Scotland’s more progressive income tax is “driving people out the country.” New HMRC data shows the opposite. Far more taxpayers are moving to Scotland than leaving it. Let’s look at the data 🧵

Care matters but Scotland isn’t keeping up, and people are being pushed into poverty as a result. The new interactive Care Policy Scorecard for Scotland shows where policy is falling short and where action is needed. Explore it: ascotlandthatcares.org/scorecard #ScotlandCares

What climate action? Stronger public services? Dignified social security? If so, we need fairer taxes says @lmacfarlane.bsky.social at Scottish Parliament. I explore the urgency and need to do so in this blog for @oxfamscotland.bsky.social for #TaxJusticeScotland. taxjustice.scot/blog/a-tripl...

'From the frontline, I can say with certainty that without fairer tax, we will continue to ask communities and charities to absorb the damage of political choices they didn’t make' Important piece by Heather from the STAR Project in @scotnational.bsky.social www.thenational.scot/politics/258...

Politicians must find courage to use fairer taxes to tackle Scotland’s poverty crisis

FOR more than 25 years, the STAR Project has worked to tackle poverty and build safer, more connected communities in Renfrewshire ...

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If we want good local services that help tackle poverty & and ensure folk get the care they need, fairer local tax is vital. This poll shows Scots overwhelmingly back fair reforms to Council Tax... we need every political party to set out clear plans to do it: bit.ly/TJSCTPoll #TaxJusticeScotland

Five times as many Scots support urgent Council Tax reform as oppose it - Tax Justice Scotland

Scotland’s political leaders are under intense pressure to replace the outdated and unfair Council Tax system.

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@oxfamscotland.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Council Tax is wildly unfair, stuck in the 90s and Scots are done with it. 📊 New polling for #TaxJusticeScot shows just 2% want to keep Council Tax as it is. We need to see urgent reform in the next Parliament. With the Scottish election ahead, parties must commit to a fairer replacement 🎥👇

Big win: Scotland’s getting a private jet tax ✈️ Here’s what it means, and what comes next.

Scotland can't afford to be complacent. We are calling on all political parties to make reducing inequality the defining mission of the next Scottish Parliament. Scotland can show that fairness and shared prosperity are possible with bold leadership and determination 💪

Oxfam GB@oxfamgb.bsky.social · 7mo ago

‼️"Billionaire wealth jumps three times faster in 2025 to highest peak ever, sparking dangerous political inequality" Find out more: bit.ly/4qpnuyI

Day 2 of @heraldscotland.bsky.social's series sparked by the Care Policy Scorecard for Scotland. www.heraldscotland.com/news/subscri... The Scorecard was produced by @swbg.bsky.social for the #AScotlandthatCares campaign. Read it here ➡️ ascotlandthatcares.org/wp-content/u...

Social Care in Crisis: 'Undervalued' sector is 'failing' across the board

How does Scotland future-proof a social care sector already in crisis?

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@oxfamscotland.bsky.social · 8mo ago

📊 Scotland’s first Care Policy Scorecard from @SWBG is out, and care isn’t making the grade. Care isn’t a luxury. Poverty shouldn't be the price of caring. We need serious investment at the Scottish Budget & beyond. Read more👉 bit.ly/CPSforScotland #ScotlandCares

📊 Scotland’s first Care Policy Scorecard from @SWBG is out, and care isn’t making the grade. Care isn’t a luxury. Poverty shouldn't be the price of caring. We need serious investment at the Scottish Budget & beyond. Read more👉 bit.ly/CPSforScotland #ScotlandCares

“People ask: what’s money got to do with it, what’s tax got to do with it? Everything” Chair of Scottish Human Rights Commission on denial of human rights in Scotland ➡️https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25678215.sickened-human-rights-chief-reveals-poverty-destroying-scotland/ #TaxJusticeScotland

The Herald@heraldscotland.bsky.social · 8mo ago

'This report is a clear call for action' 👉 www.heraldscotland.com/news...

Winter has arrived in Gaza, adding extra misery to the devastation. People urgently need support. Right now, every £1 you donate to the DEC Middle East Humanitarian Appeal will be matched by the UK Government (up to £3m). Please donate: www.dec.org.uk

A powerful story of solidarity between Scotland & the Democratic Republic of Congo. Thanks to Scottish Gov funding, Oxfam + our partners SOPROP supported 500 households to rebuild, recover and regain dignity after devastating conflict. This is what hope looks like. More ▶️ bit.ly/4ikyeep

Packed #CarersRightsDay event at Scottish Parliament with Carers Trust Scotland & Carers Scotland Too many unpaid carers live in #poverty... can't continue! Fixing this is core to @oxfamscotland.bsky.social calls for political parties pre Scottish election Help us 👉 oxfam.org.uk/fairerscotland

The latest climate action dithering👇 Delaying the Heat in Buildings Bill (again) leaves us with higher emissions & colder homes for even longer. We need to get on with this key shift. A strong grants scheme would fully protect those on low incomes, funded by fair taxes.

Stop Climate Chaos Scotland@sccscot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

“Scrapping the Heat in Buildings Bill in this parliament, which was urgently needed to help Scots to have warmer, drier homes while cutting energy costs and greenhouse gas emissions, is a disaster for householders, businesses and the climate alike." www.stopclimatechaos.scot/press-releas...

As we edge towards the UK and then Scottish budgets, an important contribution from the Chair of the Scottish Human Rights Commission, Professor Angela O'Hagan. She makes clear that "Tax justice is human rights justice" and says our tax system is falling short. 👇👇👇👇👇

@oxfamscotland.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Tax isn’t just about money, it’s about rights. Professor Angela O’Hagan from the Scottish Human Rights Commission makes the human rights case for a fairer tax system in Scotland ⬇️ Read the blog: taxjustice.scot/blog/tax-jus... #TaxJusticeScotland

Today in Edinburgh, we joined @patmillsuk.bsky.social to bring the ‘Tax Us, the Super-Rich’ bus to town. Millionaires have a message for the UK Chancellor: Tax us more. Fairer taxes on wealth could help lift people out of poverty and fund the future we all deserve #TaxJusticeScotland

Even millionaires are saying “enough is enough.” As @jamie-livingstone.bsky.social told @itvborder.bsky.social better taxing wealth isn’t radical, it’s responsible, long overdue and time the Chancellor got on and did it. It’s time for a fair tax system that works for everyone #TaxJusticeScotland

Marching today in Edinburgh for @oxfamscotland.bsky.social alongside thousands of others to say together #WeDemandBetter. On poverty, on care, on better work, on fair and fast climate action. We can do so much better.

I'm ready... are you? Tomorrow, I’ll march with thousands of others in Edinburgh to say: #ScotlandDemandsBetter 🏠 Affordable homes 💷 Fair wages 🚆 Green Transport 🫱🏽‍🫲🏼 Dignified care 🧱 Stronger social security Change only happens when we demand it. ⏬⏬⏬

The Poverty Alliance@povertyalliance.org · 10mo ago

📢1 day to go! What: #ScotlandDemandsBetter march & rally Where: Edinburgh, assemble at the Scottish Parliament from 10am and then march onto The Meadows Who: Everyone demanding a decent and dignified life free from poverty. Why: Because change happens when we stand together and demand it

'People are struggling because the system is stacked against them. Life isn't shocking anymore, it's just relentlessly hard. People are scunnered' Heather from the STAR Project in Paisley tells #TaxJusticeScotland's conference. 'Inequality exhausts people and wears them down.'

Fairer, greener, more equal: @jamie-livingstone.bsky.social at the end of #TaxJusticeScotland's conference says it’s time to turn ideas into action and deliver real change for people, public services and the planet. Agree? Repost.

Great to see FM @johnswinney.bsky.social field Qs as part of Scotland's biggest ever climate lobby. Asked about a Private Jet Tax (which could be done with devolved powers)... says he's "very sympathetic". Time to deliver! ✈️ @sccscot.bsky.social @oxfamscotland.bsky.social #ActNowChangeForever

@oxfamscotland.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Scotland’s biggest-ever climate lobby is happening today and we're there with @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social 🌍 500+ people, including some of YOU, are urging MSPs to deliver fast, fair climate action. Time to make the biggest polluters & the better off pay and invest in a greener, fairer Scotland.

Scotland’s biggest-ever climate lobby is happening today and we're there with @stopclimatechaos.bsky.social 🌍 500+ people, including some of YOU, are urging MSPs to deliver fast, fair climate action. Time to make the biggest polluters & the better off pay and invest in a greener, fairer Scotland.

"This is about real people making impossible choices everyday" - says Maggie Chiwanza from MECOPP. Their report - Unpaid, Unseen and Unheard - on the experiences of minority ethic unpaid carers in Scotland is the first for 25 years. @oxfamscotland.bsky.social proud to have supported it.

A new report by the Scottish Fiscal Commission has highlighted deep uncertainties over the climate price tag and who’ll pay it. We need politicians, in Edinburgh & London, to work together to ensure the biggest polluters and the better off pay their fair share. Our full reaction ➡️ bit.ly/48llfGj

Scot Gov's tax conf moves on to whether to better tax wealth... Again, strong support for it. Key question: how? Plenty options at UK level. In Scotland, key step is better taxing property wealth by breaking the impasse on replacing Council Tax. #TaxJusticeScotland

Jamie Livingstone@jamie-livingstone.bsky.social · 11mo ago

At @ScotGov's 'first ever' tax conf in Edinburgh. With deep pressures on Scotland's public finances, the tax system here and across UK must do much more to help deliver the fairer, greener and more prosperous country the people of Scotland want. #TaxJusticeScotland

At @ScotGov's 'first ever' tax conf in Edinburgh. With deep pressures on Scotland's public finances, the tax system here and across UK must do much more to help deliver the fairer, greener and more prosperous country the people of Scotland want. #TaxJusticeScotland

Two months today, people across Scotland will march for a better future🌍💪 Too many people are being left behind while the planet pays the price. On 25 Oct, we'll march for better jobs, homes, services and a greener future. Join the march for all of us scotland-demands-better.com